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... represent / w / , and that symbol could represent an isolated borrowing , say , from contemporary spelling of Frankish personal names . Moreover , a good number of the Frankish spelling conventions , as attested in the Malberg glosses ...
... represent / w / , and that symbol could represent an isolated borrowing , say , from contemporary spelling of Frankish personal names . Moreover , a good number of the Frankish spelling conventions , as attested in the Malberg glosses ...
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... represent a particular sound . But whereas Donatus envisaged a constant potestas whereby one letter con- sistently represented one sound , that was not the case in either the Old Irish or the earliest Old English alphabet . Although ...
... represent a particular sound . But whereas Donatus envisaged a constant potestas whereby one letter con- sistently represented one sound , that was not the case in either the Old Irish or the earliest Old English alphabet . Although ...
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simply to represent the sounds / k , p , t / : ' the ambiguity of the OIr . system , whereby p , t , c can represent both voiced and voiceless stops was avoided ' in Old English.51 This discrepancy ( as he saw it ) no doubt led him to ...
simply to represent the sounds / k , p , t / : ' the ambiguity of the OIr . system , whereby p , t , c can represent both voiced and voiceless stops was avoided ' in Old English.51 This discrepancy ( as he saw it ) no doubt led him to ...
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Ireland England and the Rhetoric | 75 |
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